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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Fabricated identities, fictitious daycares, and made-up laws.

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Appeals Court Keeps ICE Out of Churches: No Warrant, No Entry — For Now

A unanimous Fourth Circuit panel upheld limits on warrantless ICE arrests at eight churches, a Sikh temple, and Quaker meetinghouses, citing religious freedom law.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Rough rides, U.S. attorney vacancies, and the 26th Amendment.

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Fourth Circuit Concludes South Carolina Cannot Limit "No-Excuse" Absentee Ballots to Those Over 65

An election law question that seems destined for the Supreme Court.

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First Amendment Might Protect FTP&ATF License Plate

The Fourth Circuit considers "a question that has divided ... courts ...: whether the character combinations on personalized license plates ... are government speech or private speech."

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Financial surveillance, impaired contracts, and games of gotcha.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Armed canvassers, extrajudicial killings, and guns on the metro.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Rum, time travel, and inappropriate trophies.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Bleak House, wellness checks, and forfeiture interrogatories.

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SCOTUS Summarily Reverses The "Inquisitorial" Fourth Circuit Twice In One Term

The judges of the Fourth Circuit continue to act as advocates.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

SWAT damage, sloppy briefs, and forced confessions.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

A camp chair, a shaking of faith, and a murder in front of a Waffle House.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Smart meters, bad metaphors, and the color of state law

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Links to My Posts on Chatrie v. United States, the Geofence Warrant Case

Fourteen posts in all, from 2022 to the present.

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Fourth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Disclosing Names of Perceived Afghan Collaborators

The order came in a peculiar context—a civil lawsuit over the custody of a child born in Afghanistan—but its logic extends further.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

ICE, AirPods, and the No Fly List

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A Narrow Resolution on Geofence Warrants?: A Thought on Chatrie

The first in a series.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Fiery writs, imperial sovereigns, and cheating escheators.

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Background Check's Reporting Expunged Conviction Isn't Defamation or Fair Credit Reporting Act Violation

From Smith v. InformData, LLC, decided Wednesday by Judge Rossie Alston (E.D. Va.): Plaintiff Harry Smith filed suit for alleged… The post Background Check's Reporting Expunged Conviction Isn't Defamation or Fair Credit Reporting Act Violation appeared first on Reason.com.

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Fourth Circuit Publicly Admonishes Lawyer for "Citations to Nonexistent Judicial Opinions"

From yesterday's decision in In re Nwaubani, from the Fourth Circuit (Judges Marvin Quattlebaum, Allison Rushing, and DeAndrea Gist Benjamin):… The post Fourth Circuit Publicly Admonishes Lawyer for "Citations to Nonexistent Judicial Opinions" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Lies, damned lies, and statutes of limitations.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

An empty whiskey bottle, a rat in the crosshairs, and the nightmares of HR managers

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Fourth Circuit Rejects Facial Challenge to Two Trump Anti-DEI Executive Orders

"What plaintiffs are really asking us to do is read subtext into the Provision's text."

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SCOTUS Summarily Reverses Fourth Circuit, Justice Jackson votes to deny writ of certiorari without opinion

KBJ's dissent from the grant of certiorari, without a written opinion, is fairly rare.

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Is the Fourth the New Ninth? - 2026 Update

Another summary reversal of a Fourth Circuit AEDPA decision.

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